Jul 17, 2011

The CareTracker from Tracking Central is a personal tracking device that uses GPS and the cellular phone network to let you follow the location of an individual who may be carrying the device with them. This is the sort of device that you can use if you have an elderly family member who may be inclined to wander off without telling you where they’re off...

Dec 5, 2010

Remember the Motorola DynaTAC? It was mobile phone just a tad larger and heavier than the iPhone. It didn’t quite fit into your pocket, either. It happens to have been the mobile phone’s 20th birthday this week, and in London, Motorola had a party to commemorate this event, with the invitations being sent out with a cardboard replica of the...

Sep 5, 2010

Acer this week announced a new range of mobile phones coming into the Australian market. Ranging from the inexpensive entry level beTouch models running Android 1.6, through the Liquid E models and up to the HDMI equipped Stream (both running Android 2.1) there are five different models to suit various budgets and needs. A couple of unique points come to mind...

Sep 5, 2010

Microsoft’s new mobile phone operating system, Phone 7, went gold this week. That means that it has now been released to manufacturing, which in turn means that it’s ow up to the various partner handset manufacturers to to complete their integration of the operating system into their handsets’ firmware and bring them into production. We are...

Aug 1, 2010

A recent UK study has discovered that mobile phones may harbour up to 18 times more bacteria than toilets. The consumer magazine Which, tested a selection of 30 different mobile phones to determine how much bacteria they contained. Of those 30, seven were covered in high levels of environmental bacteria. This could act as a breeding ground for other bugs. One...